Gideon is quiet for a long moment, golden eyes on their hands. She thinks about these two beds, of which is used and which isn't, and she thinks about how Harrow cajoled and bullied and tricked her into relaxing earlier.

"But maybe," she says, and her voice is just barely loud enough to hear. "Second death. She said second death. What if...she didn't mean you at all? What if it was about her?"

The way she says her makes it clear Gideon is not referring to Ciri. There's only one her who looms large enough to go by no name at all. "If she thought you were forgetting her, abandoning her...she's dead already. What could kill someone again?"

Aside from no longer existing in the head of a girl they'd stowed away in?